https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/001-sir-christopher-wren/

If you ask someone from the UK for the name of an architect there’s a good chance they’ll say Christopher Wren. Best known for St. Paul’s Cathedral, and rebuilding after the 1666 Fire of London, designing over 50 churches.

Taken from London, ed. Charles Knight; Tufts has it in TEI XML but no download link i could find. Hah! I have the physical book to scan!

#vintageEngraving #portrait #SirChristopherWren #ChristopherWren #architect #wig #fobo #GIMP #Gimp_3 #xsane

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marcelin-LaVieParisienne-1863/

Three of about 12 images from an 1865 article about spiritists, people using mediums to communicate with the dead. Hugely popular in 1860s.

The article purports to be a translate of an English factual account, hah!.

The dresser looks like a robot :) Pus i get to use #undeadBeetles as a tag!

#vintageEngravings #sensationalism #spirits #undeadBeetles #FOBO #GIMP #Gimp_3 #GIMP3 #spiritualism #spiritists #spirites #undedMusicians #satire #unded #ghosts

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/065-abendlied-ruined-castle-gateway/

A German poem, Abendlied, or, Evening song by Friedrich Rückert was in the blank area in this full-page illustration.

Signed i think HARLEY, prolly John J. Harley, about whom i know very little. The engraver made the lines for the sky a bit wonky, and it was hard to avoid interference fringes on downsizing.

#GIMP #Gimp_3 #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #castle #sheep #bucolicScenes #rural #rural_life #fobo

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/pages/021-summer-dance/

Danaë, mother of Perseus. One can almost imagine the sky-god Zeus watching her dance here.

It was a little startling to open this huge book (some 400mm/16 inches tall) and see this full-page painting reproduced: you can almost feel the brush strokes.

It’s always tempting to increase chorma/saturation & make a more modern-feeling picture!

#Schram #AloisHansSchram #vintageArt #greekMyth #toplessWoman #vintageArt #fobo #GIMP #Gimp_3 #Summer #painting #art

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/01/24/gimp-3-0-8-released/

GIMP 3.0.8 released today.

A new version of the manual, including more translation work; fixes to bugs people have been kind enough to report.

Startup performance improved on many systems; colour profiles on Windows; SVG path import;
some minor UI improvements; security fixes; see link for more.

This might be the final 3.0 release before 3.2.

#GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #release #freeSoftware #libreGraphics #GNU #GnuImageEditor

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/17-298-family-barefoot-boy/

There’s what i think is meant to be an anti-English joke about how slowly they (we) drink beer associated with this, but Google Translate mangled it, i think. See the link - can anyone help with a better translation?

At any rate he seems to be a very ugly boy, but maybe it’s the hair giving him a skinhead look.

#Jugend #JugendStile #vintageArt #cartoon #fobo #family #GIMP #Gimp_3 #barefoot #artNouveau

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/16-269-justice-with-lion/

Here we see justice as represented in classical art - the blindfold of impartiality (hah) started appearing in the 15th or 16th century.

I have no idea about steaming hearts (?) in her hands, nor about the women on either side, nor what the right-hand person is standing upon. Nor the bird on her helmet actually. Clearly i am no art historian!

Any ideas?

#Justice #Justititia #nudity #woman #lion #fobo #vintageEngraving #artNouveau #JugendStile #GIMP #Gimp_3

GIMP will be at #Fosdem26 - Ondřej Míchal will be talking about our plans for the future of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, #GIMP

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BKTC3Z-wheres_gimp_going_after_3_2/

#FOSDEM #GIMP3 #Gimp_3

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-MusaeumHermeticum/pages/345-putrefactio-dragon/

A knight, on foot, fighting a dragon. The image was captioned Putrefactio, or, rot, and seems to be an allegory of the knight fighting rot. It could be an early ad for bleach, but no, it’s more likely the inner journey of purification we must go through, in this occult book on the Philosopher’s Stone.

#occult #dragon #knight #battle #vintageArt #alchemy #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #allegory

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/16-268-castle-vignette/

A locket, maybe, or medallion, a medal with a ribbon for your neck. With a castle on it. Jugend magazine, 1900.

It could almost be Neuschwanstein castle, and i think it very likely that was the intent.

The artist, Ernst Neumann-Neander, of Munich, also designed motorbikes.

#fobo #jugend #JugendStile #fobo #artNouveau #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #castle #medal #GIMP #Gimp_3 #GIMP3